Bulimulus (Scutalus) quechuarum Crawford, 1939

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2014, Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 392, pp. 1-367 : 136

Bulimulus (Scutalus) quechuarum Crawford, 1939 Figs 71C-D , 71K , L51i

Bulimulus (Scutalus) quechuarum Crawford 1939: 330, pl. 19 figs 11-12; Breure 1979: 86.

Type locality.

[Peru, Dept. Puno] ”Capachica”.

Label.

"Capachica, near Puno, / Peru / 12,600 ft." [1939.4.17.226-227], "Saracocha 13,600 ft." [.230-231], "Lake Junin, alt. 13000 ft Peru" [1925.12.16.20].

Dimensions.

"length 21.5 mm., breath 9.0 mm."; figured specimen herein H 21.5, D 9.0, W 5.2.

Type material.

NHMUK 1939.4.17.226, holotype (soft parts. 229); 1939.4.17.227-228,. 230-231, four paratypes, Percy Sladen Expedition leg., 16.iv.1937; 1925.12.16.20, five paratypes, Godman Thomas Expedition leg.

Remarks.

The holotype is indicated on the label, on which is remarked "smallest spec. quite likely / a different sp."; in fact, this specimen is a juvenile Bostryx species and may have been mixed up with this lot. Crawford mentioned two specimens from the type locality and two from Saracocha, which is in the same region; the fifth, juvenile specimen was not mentioned by him and is here excluded from the type material. Another lot is from the Lake Junín area; we concur with the doubt expressed by Crawford himself about this being conspecific ("Junin lies … about 500 miles NW of the other two localities"), but refrain from making definitive conclusions as this is beyond the scope of this paper.

Current systematic position.

Bulimulidae , Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) quechuarum (Crawford, 1939) (comb. n.).

Figures

Figure 71. Kuschelenia species. A-B, I Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) peaki (Breure, 1978), paratype NHMUK 1975579 (H = 23.5) C-D, K Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) quechuarum (Crawford, 1939), holotype NHMUK 1939.4.17.226 (H = 21.5) E-F, J Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) ochracea (Morelet, 1863), lectotype NHMUK 1893.2.4.164 (N = 36.0) G-H Kuschelenia (Vermiculatus) purpuratus (Reeve, 1849), lectotype NHMUK 1975364 (H = 37.3)

Figure L 51. Labels. i Bulimulus (Scutalus) quechuarum Crawford, 1939 ii Bulimus radiatus Morelet, 1863 iii Bulimulus ragsdalei Pilsbry, 1890 iv Bulimulus (Drymaeus) rawsonis H. Adams, 1873 v Bulimus recedens Pfeiffer, 1864 vi Bulimus reconditus Reeve, 1849 vii Bulimus rectilinearis Pfeiffer, 1855 viii Drymaeus regularis Fulton, 1905.